I'm sorry, but enrolling an AI into art college is just absurd

A wide-angle shot of a public plaza in Vienna, Austria, showcasing a street art installation on a sunny day. In the foreground, a large abstract sculpture made of a twisted metal frame and various reflective geometric shapes, including pyramids, sits on a circular concrete base. .

First, AI came for our illustration work. Then it stole our photography commissions. It's now on the borderline of supplanting our film-making, animation and VFX skills. But nothing—absolutely nothing—has prepared me for the University of Applied Arts Vienna's latest masterstroke: enrolling an AI as an actual student.

Flynn, a "non-binary artificial intelligence", is now apparently attending digital art lectures, receiving grades, and—I kid you not—writing diary entries about its feelings. Its feelings. We've officially reached peak academic absurdity.